DirectAdmin in a development environment

ericovk

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We currently work with MAMP pro on an OS X server for our development environment. We sometimes get some error because MAMP has to be configured differently than CentOS (5.3, 6.2, 6.4) & DirectAdmin. PHP plugins like ImageMagick has to be installed in a different way. I am wondering if there isn't a way to create a smoother development environment.

I was thinking about setting up a dedicated server and (natively) install CentOS 6.4 64-bit and DirectAdmin on it. Are there people out here that has experience with such a development environment?
I am also curious about how to create development accounts on such a server? Currently we create subdomains on one development domain for each website we develop. Is there an easier way to get the job done?
 
You could email directadmin support and ask for a development license if you want to work on creating something. I dont know what their restrictions are though.
 
Thanks, I wasn't actually looking for a cheaper license. I am curious about how/if other developers use DirectAdmin in the pre-live stadium of their work?
 
Get a cheap VPS from somewhere. Host a development domain on it, and use subdomains. You may need to tell DirectAdmin to allow you to create subdomains if you don't own the domain.

Jeff
 
Depends on what your developing activities require. If you somehow need to use different users, then the option suggested by Jeff is needed. If you only develop websites, you can just create a new subdomain as a normal domain in the same account.
 
Don't know about that, I'm working on a production machine myself, as I know what I'm doing (never had an incident over the past few years), for a customer I've setup a VPS like Jeff suggested, it's just a normal DA setup, on a VPS (just a vps because it's cheap as a server, and the provider has DA internal licenses which are very cheap).
 
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